The Bedtime Book of Impossible Questions

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Full of insightful facts and curious conundrums, this is the perfect present for any inquisitive child. Find out about the latest book in the 'Girl, Missing' series, Secret Sister, in this short video by author Sophie McKenzie. Simply talking about ideas together is enough, and shows children that their curiosity is something to celebrate. Isabel read Human Sciences at Oxford University, before working in journalism and children's publishing.

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I think about how an eight-year-old would talk about a topic they are passionate about, with unbridled wonder and joy.Aaron Cushley is a talented illustrator from Belfast who studied Illustration and Graphic design at the University Of Ulster. Isabel has been shortlisted for the Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize and the Blue Peter Book Awards and won the AAAS Subaru Prize for Excellence in Science Books 2020. When a famous opera singer and her beloved cat, Kaspar, come to stay, it’s the start of a sequence of events which changes Johnny’s life and see him ending up on the ill-fated Titanic.

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After university, I combined teaching science with working for a local company that published maths and science textbooks. Other than some fascinating insights into our world, what would you like young readers to take from your book?One of the most common misconceptions is that to be a scientist, you need to know lots of facts or get the right answers all the time.

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These are just some of the impossible questions posed and answered in this excellent and thoroughly engaging information book. There is plenty to appeal to curiosity about the physical and biological world and author Isabel Thomas takes every opportunity to introduce fundamental scientific concepts in an accessible way for readers over the age of 7. First, I've had the honour of visiting dozens of schools, meeting thousands of children and answering hundreds of questions. Although it wouldn't fit in The Bedtime Book of Impossible Questions, I'm pleased to say Bloomsbury has commissioned an entire book of its own, which I'm writing right now! The illustrations and colourful pages add to the pleasure of reading and help to give visual answers and perspective.In Ukraine the custom of putting fake spider webs on their Christmas trees arose from the story of a poor widow and her children who grew a tree from a pinecone, but then had no money to decorate it. This book would suit a wide range of ages, from five-year-olds who ask a million questions a day themselves, to 11-year-olds who are curious and ready to absorb the information and facts. Full of fascinating facts and awesome illustrations, my daughter and I have barely scratched the surface of this large book that has almost 100 questions and answers. It is not always an easy life – inserting a tube into Geronimo the alpaca’s mouth was, to say the least, tricky – but it all goes well and children of eight-plus who love animals would be delighted to be given this book for Christmas. Author Guy Bass introduces SCRAP, about one robot who tried to protect the humans on his planet against an army of robots.

The Bedtime Book of Impossible Questions by Isabel Thomas

Newburytoday children’s book reviewer CAROLINE FRANKLIN is feeling really Christmassy with her final monthly selection of 2021: Many families have their own Christmas traditions – when I was a child we always wore something new on Christmas Day. Around ten years ago, I began collecting the best questions I heard, from assemblies (If chickens taste so good, why don't they eat themselves? Author Isabel Thomas has collected the questions from children themselves during her visits to schools around the country - and she decided to put them together in The Bedtime Book of Impossible Questions, so we can all find the answers to these and more questions! Each starts out by being lonely, but one by one and by just hanging about together they all find good friends in the end.Why don’t caterpillars get stung by nettles and how many trees are there in the whole world are just two of the questions which get answered. Being of a similar age and living close to each other helps, but it seems that expressions and body language often match our own. Third, I have always worked, through outreach and through writing, to demolish myths about science and who belongs in science.